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Calliphora

{{Short description|Genus of flies}}

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|image = Calliphora vicina.jpg

|image_caption = Calliphora vicina

|taxon = Calliphora

|authority = Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830{{cite journal |last1=Robineau-Desvoidy |first1=André Jean Baptiste |title=Essai sur les myodaires |journal=Mémoires presentés à L'Institut des Sciences, Lettres et Arts, par divers savants et lus dans ses assemblées: Sciences, Mathématiques et Physique |date=1830 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1–813 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3472165#page/9/mode/1up |access-date=15 July 2018}}

|display_parents = 2

|type_species = Musca vomitoria

|type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

|synonyms_ref = {{cite journal|first1=H.|last1=Schumann|first2=A. L.|last2=Ozerov|title=Zum systematischen Status von Abago rohdendorfi Grunin, 1966 (Diptera, Calliphoridae)|journal=Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift|date=1992|volume=39|issue=4–5|pages=403–408|doi=10.1002/mmnd.19920390416}}

|synonyms = *Abago Grunin, 1966

  • Acronesia Hall, 1948
  • Acrophaga Brauer & von Bergenstamm, 1891

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Calliphora is a genus of blow flies, also known as bottle flies, found in most parts of the world, with the highest diversity in Australia. The most widespread species in North America are Calliphora livida, C. vicina, and C. vomitoria.

Calliphora, meaning "bearer of beauty", was first formally named in 1830 by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy. It is the type genus of the family Calliphoridae.

Description

Adults of Calliphora have a grey or black thorax, the colour dulled by a heavy microtomentum. The abdomen is metallic blue (rarely purple or green) and sometimes also dulled by microtomentum. The suprasquamal ridge is bare or with inconspicuous fine setae only. The first flagellomere of the antenna is more than twice the length of the pedicel.{{Cite journal |last=Jones |first=N. |last2=Whitworth |first2=T. |last3=Marshall |first3=S. A. |date=September 2019 |title=Blow flies of North America: Keys to the subfamilies and genera of Calliphoridae, and to the species of the subfamilies Calliphorinae, Luciliinae and Chrysomyinae |url=https://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/articles/jwm-39/ |journal=Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification |volume=39 |doi=10.3752/cjai.2019.39|doi-access=free }}

Larvae have two posterior spiracles with a thick and unbroken peritreme, and (like other Calliphoridae larvae) containing straight slits. There is an accessory sclerite between the mouth hooks, though this is not visible in whole larvae.{{Cite web |title=Maggot Identification Key |url=https://shire.science.uq.edu.au/bb/parasitology/maggots/maggot.html#section9 |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=shire.science.uq.edu.au}}

Species

Species in the genus Calliphora include:{{UniProt Taxonomy |name=Calliphora |id=7372 |accessdate=2008-05-31}}

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|Calliphora augur whitebackground.jpg|Calliphora augur

|Calliphora sp Portrait.jpg|Calliphora hilli

|Calliphora vomitoria Portrait.jpg|Calliphora vomitoria

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References

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{{cite web |title=Genus Calliphora - BugGuide.Net |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/7177 |website=bugguide.net |access-date=10 November 2019}}

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Category:Calliphoridae

Category:Oestroidea genera

Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy